Dear Y'all.

Gulla's BookClub Part 2

(Just thought I’ll throw the title out there so that I can fight for TradeMark or patent rights if such time ever comes. Clearly I don’t know how patents work. Who’s surprised??)

Y’all, what’s popping. Let’s just assume that my second book suggestion came almost a month after my first because I am the kind of nice person who gives enough time for my people to catch up and stay motivated. Alright? It is definitely not because I am me and me is lazy, unfocused, sleepy, netflix-addicted, crazy…. why am I like this????? Yeah, definitely not because of the latter. Totally giving you guys time. Right, moving on.

So how many of you actually read ‘The Hate you Give’ because I swore it would be great.

None? Well, I knew that. Will you guys read it if I Venmo $10, guys I am so bored and if I could quiz you off the book you read, I’d do that.

But, that’s okay. Maybe the book wasn’t your type. Just like self-help books aren’t my type. I swear if I have to read one more book on ‘How to make pennies into Paris trips’ or ‘Time and Tide waits for none’ or ‘5 traits of a 5-year-old self-made billionaire’ really I’ll drink that disinfectant.

Where is all the shallowness, eh? Let’s just read fiction and pretend everything is A-okay. Or even better, let’s just read sad romantic Nicholas Sparks novels and dump our perfect partners to create some drama in our lives, what say? I think I set the stage quite well, my only 2 friends also stopped reading this post from here on, I am sure.

But, if you did not, any guesses on what would be my this week’s book suggestion?

And this time NO MOVIE, only BOOK ok? I repeat. MOVIE DOES NOT DO JUSTICE TO THE BOOK. I need to stop yelling, you got the point.

I am not great at keeping things short or NOT beating around the bush, obviously, so I won’t tell you that this story is about this man who starts off aimless, directionless in life and then when he makes a chance decision to join the army, he meets a sweet, not so beautiful but kind-hearted girl and falls in love and what happens next is what breaks(or makes) our heart. But I will tell you that this is not your usual happily-ever-after story where everyone gets what they want or where good people get good things. Clearly, as I grew up, I realized that life doesn’t work that way, it never had, and maybe that’s why I loved this book like I loved no other love story. Because in all honesty, it did not seem like just a love story to me.

If you read this book, we can talk more about it. I love people who read books and read them with fervent passion and involvement. Not algebra books, not biographies either. Books like Dear John :P

Please read it, Okay? And let me know what you think!!!